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Title:		The Racialized Pandemic: Wave One of Covid-19 and the Reproduction of Global North Inequalities
Authors:	Gerda Hooijer and Desmond King
Contact:	g.hooijer@ucl.ac.uk
Date: 		May 16, 2021
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For the analysis, you will need Stata. 

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*** Reproducing Figures ***
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This file describes how the figures in the paper can be replicated. The data used is all publicly available and the sources are included in the paper and the files for the raw data.
The data sources for Tables 1 to 3 are listed in the paper's endnotes.

The code to create the datasets is listed in *Hooijer_King_PoP_Cleaning.do* and the code to reproduce the figures can be found in *Hooijer_King_PoP_Figures.do*.

The figures are based on four created datasets:

(1) Unemployment rates for the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Sweden are stored in *data_1.dta*. This file can be created by combining four files 
containing raw data for each of the countries:
- *ur_us.xlsx*
- *ur_uk.xlsx*
- *ur_nl.xlsx*
- *ur_se.xlsx*

With *data_1.dta* the following figures can be reproduced:
- Figure 1. Short-term effects of the Covid-19 crisis on unemployment rates by main racial-ethnic group
- Figure 2. Racial-ethnic gaps in unemployment
- Figure 5. Unemployment rates by main racial-ethnic group across economic crises

(2) Occupational data for the US and the UK are stored in *data_2.dta* and *data_3.dta*, respectively. 

With *data_2.dta* and *data_3.dta* the following figure can be reproduced:
- Figure 3. Occupational exposure to Covid-19 and racial-ethnic inequalities can be created.

(3) Unemployment benefit receipt data for the UK and the Netherlands are stored in *data_4.dta*. This file can be created by combining three files 
containing raw data for the two countries on the number of unemployed persons and the number of unemployment benefit recipients:
- *ur_uk.xlsx*
- *ubr_uk.xlsx*
- *ubr_nl.xlsx* 

With *data_4.dta* the following figure can be reproduced:
- Figure 4. Unemployment benefit receipt by main racial-ethnic group

